Happy Birthday to the only writer who matches me for way-out ideas, and who is my occasional collaborator (for instance in the ‘War of the Rings’ drabble/ficlet series): beer_good_foamy. I tried to think of a suitable birthday fic but all I could come up with was this BtVS drabble…

Soul Searching

After a series of soul-destroying minimum wage jobs Xander decided to join the Army. Perhaps his lingering vestiges of the Soldier memories might help him make a success of himself. After Basic Training he was posted far away from Sunnydale and it was a year before he returned.